Dec 3, 2018 | Haywood, Union affiliation
AUTHOR: Tim Pruitt Isaac Burleson “Ike” McGaha ca. 1833-1919 A longtime resident of the “lawless” Big Bend region of Cataloochee, Haywood County (Hicks Cove area), Ike was a farmer and sometime moonshine maker like most. He was noted for his long red chin beard and...
Dec 3, 2018 | Haywood, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Dean Rathbone A message of hope and peace. I never knew my great grandparents, Anderson and Bette Kirkpatrick Ledford, but I feel like I did. They lived with my Granny Hattie and Grandpa Charlie after Granny Bette had her stroke. My Mom still talks...
Nov 14, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Moore, Union affiliation
AUTHOR: Tom Bailey I knew my dad and he knew his. It got a bit iffy when I started chasing the ‘Rest of The Story.’ I had problems locating documentation for my GF’s birth, among other things. Then, I located his birth record, Lafayette Burl Smith...
Nov 7, 2018 | Johnston, Union affiliation
SUBMITTED BY: Warren Grimes From Mr. Grimes: “I’ve attached a page from Centenary United Methodist Church’s 1865 Sabbath School Journal where a Union soldier wrote in it while Sherman’s army was in Smithfield after the Battle of Bentonville....
Oct 25, 2018 | Confederate affiliation, Gaston, Union affiliation
AUTHORS: Sid Stroupe and Mike Stroupe Jonas and Rebecca Cloninger Stroup lived in Gaston County, N.C. and had five sons—William Maxwell, Wesley, Cephas C, Johanna, and Rufus—all of whom served in the Confederate Army. The family paid a steep price—three of their sons...
Oct 23, 2018 | Dare, Union affiliation
AUTHOR: Karen Meekins Friel My great-great-grandfather Benjamin Barnes was a civilian living in Kinnakeet, NC (now called Avon) during the Civil War. I believe the Outer Banks were off and on occupied by Union forces during the war. One night Benjamin was walking...
